🌳 50+ NATIVE TREE SAPLINGS PLANTED! 🌳 Thanks to our volunteers and locals. We've planted 50+ native tree saplings such as peepal, bargad, goolar, arjun, marodphali, neem, pilkhan and jamun. 🌳 This season we'll plant a wide variety of saplings to aid biodiversity. It'll not only help in reducing air pollution effectively but will also help in improving our ecology. 🌳🌳🌳

LET'S PLANT MORE TREES! Even as Delhi protests against the felling of 16,500+ trees in south Delhi, a couple of our volunteers have kicked off our plantation as we stare at the monsoon in coming few days. As usual, we are going to plant ONLY NATIVE INDIAN TREES such as peepal, neem, amaltas, banyan etc. and not ORNAMENTAL PALMS used by GOVERNMENT AGENCIES in their FAKE COMPENSATORY AFFORESTATION! We will start scheduling proper plantation drives on this with coming weekend. We will keep you posted with further details.

80+ SAPLINGS PLANTED! Today's updates: 1. The contractor finally began the desilting of lake but a couple of unfortunate incidents happened. A DJB pipeline broke and the water leaked into the lake, raising the water level. Things became difficult for the contractor as their machine partially submerged in water. 2. We are trying to get the DJP pipeline fixed at the earliest. We've also deployed a motor to pump out water. This water is being used to irrigate the surrounding garden. We had a buy-in of the DDA's horticulture department in this. 3. We also have the support of Mrs. Veena Virmani ji, Chairperson or North DMC, who is helping us by pushing this through with the government officials. 4. Apart from this, we also planted about 80+ bougainvillea saplings around the lake. These saplings will grow into a beautiful bush and will help in biodiversity of this area. It'll help attract butterflies and birds. We used lake water to irrig...

Firstly, we are glad to share that DDA has recently formalised the contract for desilting of this lake. The contractor has begun the work. Now that the lake has dried up at an optimal level to begin work the contractor will utilize the machine to clear the lake of all the silt and rubbish. Following picture shows the state of the lake as on 10-Jun-18: Our team will also supplement their efforts by actually getting inside the lake and clearing the waste. As you may have observed in the above pictures, a lot of this waste comprises of clay utensils thrown into the lake by some people during Chath Pooja. Our team is going to clear this waste along with any plastic or glass bottles. Further, while we don't believe in forbidding anyone to practice their religious beliefs, we urge everyone to consider the environment while performing any actions. We are also planning to isolate one area of the lake that can be utilised to perform such religious activities. We...

The amount of garbage we collected! Well, it's the ususal story wherever we go. And this is what we do! As a part of our whole effort towards reviving the lake, we are also looking at other important aspects - the surrounding ecosystem. It is important to have a clean environment. Our volunteers engaged in clearing litter from the surrounding garden not only to ensure it is clean but also to create awareness by action that it is our responsibility as citizens to keep our city clean.

We're into the fourth week of Prasad Nagar lake revival. Today, we started with creating awareness about various issues of the lake and how those can be tackled. Great thing is that a lot of locals understand these issues and have come together to help revive the park and the lake. They themselves talked about the importance of protecting the park as they realise how everyone gets benefited from the park and that it is everyone's duty to give back to the park. While they talked about it, a lot more locals gathered to listen. Soon after this, a team of locals put on gloves and started cleaning the periphery of the lake of all kinds of plastics, glass bottles and religious offerings. Another team of volunteers started cleaning the park area collecting plastics and food left by people near trees in different bags. The main highlight of today was the restoration of an old peepal tree. Everyday people, in the name of misplaced faith, put eatables such a...

We met top DDA civil and horticulture officials today to pester them for initiating the lake cleaning process. The contracting of the cleaning is still under process so that is expected to be completed in the coming week. Brijesh Gupta ji, civil, has directed his department officials to pursue the matter aggressively and has also directed them to begin the cleaning of the lake latest by 5-7 June. Once the desilting process starts it can be completed within two weeks. Brijesh Gupta ji is well aware of the monsoon staring at us. So, even he is trying to get this process completed before rains hit Delhi. Gupta ji is also open to look at other options where the lake could be cleaned without even removing water out of it. He has requested a detailed proposal from us with all such options available along with the costing. If any of such methods are economically feasible, they shall also be explored and most possibly implemented. Harswaroop Singh ji, horticulture, has also of...

CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH NATURE! In order to make people feel attached to Prasad Nagar Lake, we involved them in plantation in the lake park today. The gesture was well received and much appreciated by the locals. They pledged to take care of the saplings by watering them. Additionally, the locals also felt more enthusiastic about cleaning of the lake and agreed to cooperate by spreading awareness among the visitors on littering or dropping wheat flour balls in the lake. As for the actual cleaning process, we had a meeting with DDA officials yesterday, along with their contractor. While the contractor is fixated on the idea of removal of silt only when the lake dries up, we believe it's not possible this season. Thus, the DDA officials have sought our proposal on the same - how to clean the lake while it is still full of water. Our experts are drafting a proposal on the same and we are looking to submit the same during this week. However, till th...

A very special day as the whole world celebrates Mother's Day today. Our team attempted to make people give a thought to another mother - the mother of all mothers - MOTHER NATURE! We asked people to display their love and commitment towards mother nature by hugging a tree! Also, as a part of our efforts to revive the lake we politely requested visitors not to put atta for ants around the trees as infestation by insects makes the area hollow and porous leading to a weak support for tree roots. At the worst trees can fall! Mother nature has equipped ants with enough sense to locate their food! We also requested not to keep bajra for pigeons as pigeons' population has disproportionately increased over the past years. And this has created an imbalance in the population of birds in our city. It has also affected sparrows, which are rare now! Mother nature has also equipped pigeons to locate their own food... they don't need us. We also requested not to put...

The morning of 6-May-18 was very special. With a very strong support from our own volunteers, the concerned government officials and also encouraging support from the locals, we kicked off the revival of Prasad Nagar Lake. We also have the company of some relevant experts in the areas of biodiversity and water bodies revival - both by natural means and the utilisation of technology in a way it doesn't disturb the natural vibes of the place. Our experts team is currently chalking out the entire strategy to outline a proper methodical approach on the cleaning of this lake. Meanwhile, our other set of volunteers shall be creating awareness among the visitors of this lake. Please join us! We need a lot of support for this!

Delhi is one of the greenest capitals in the world yet one of the most polluted cities. Delhi recorded its hottest day in April yesterday at 42 ºC. Trees can help! But hey, only the right ones!!! So, with this thought we organized a nature walk on 29-Apr-18 at Prasad Nagar Lake. A huge number of people who turned up for our nature walk this morning! It's a delight to see there are so many people who care for our environment and want to do a lot to preserve it! While our own team member Bhuvan Chopra led the walk, educating people about native trees and their significance, our special guest was none other than Peepal Baba! Peepal Baba inspired us even more to get close to nature. The walk offered an opportunity for the attendees to immerse themselves in nature. It allowed them to learn about various native trees of Delhi. Trees such as peepal, banyan, neem, amaltas, pilkhan, marodphali, jaadi, mango, jamun etc. are of high ecological significance. These tree...

Thanks to the efforts of our volunteers at Rani Bagh and Vikas Puri. We were able to remove more garbage from road medians today. This would help ensure clean surroundings for our saplings. Rani Bagh: 7 bags of garbage collected from a road median stretch of 120 meters by eight volunteers in 45 minutes Vikas Puri: 4 bags of garbage collected from a road median stretch of 90 meters by four volunteers in 45 minutes Our volunteers also watered our saplings. We are pleased to see such robust growth in a lot our saplings.

Kudos to the volunteers who helped cleaned areas around our saplings to ensure clean surroundings for them. Two teams worked simultaneously - Seven volunteers at Rani Bagh and four at Vikas Puri. They not only cleared off the garbage from those road medians but also watered our saplings.

WE MEAN TO CLEAN has been planting various ecologially beneficial trees in Delhi since the monsoon of 2017. We have been regularly watering our planted saplings. We have also started planting some fresh saplings to compensate for those that unfortunately didn't survive. This mini plantation was extra special. We got two valuable donations from two volunteers' families. A champa that had grown too big to be kept in a pot. And a jamun sapling which was grown at home. As usual, we also planted alstonia saplings at both Rani Bagh and Vikas Puri. It was heartening to see people coming from far off distances, once again proving that if you have the will and love for greenery, distance doesn't matter! Kudos to all these ordinary citizens for doing the extraordinary over and over again!

WE MEAN TO CLEAN has been planting various ecologially beneficial trees in Delhi since the monsoon of 2017. We have been regularly watering our planted saplings. We have also started planting some fresh saplings to compensate for those that unfortunately didn't survive. Thanks to our volunteers we were able to plant 10 new saplings, five each at Rani Bagh and Vikas Puri in a first simultaneous plantation drive at two locations! Guess what... we used home-made compost as nutrition for these new saplings. And we not only planted these new saplings but also watered our existing ones! Was a fun-filled and satisfying Sunday morning!